MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
advances in
online learning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOCs are
generally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can participants
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can learners
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Guyana to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
compelling new open education
undertakings.
Lecturers want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This intriguing new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
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